Classics2000 Dodge Ram 2500 – Word of Mouth

18:40 03 january 2019

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Jeffrey Benson sends his 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 for a full build, courtesy of Diesel Power Challenge 2017 alum Levi Krech. What started as a simple enough tint job on Jeffrey’s ’00 Dodge Ram 2500 turned into a full-blown project, owing to the shop’s excellent work.

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It’s not uncommon for former Diesel Power Challenge entrants to have some amount of notoriety in the enthusiast space—in fact, that fame is one reason many DPC competitors are voted into the contest in the first place. That’s the case with DPC 2017 alumnus Levi Krech, an alternate who was accepted into the Challenge in the eleventh hour and whose ’06 Dodge Ram 2500 achieved impressive results in the dyno, quarter-mile drag race, and eighth-mile trailer-tow segments.

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The dash in the ’95 Dodge Ram 2500 isn't full of gauges or a sophisticated data logger. “We spend so much time on the dyno, we already know just about everything the engine does during a pull,” Rob explains. 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 – Word of Mouth .

Levi’s fame in the industry is driven in part by his diesel shop, Unique Performance LLC. Based in Gillette, Wyoming, Unique Performance became the shop of choice for Jeffrey Benson, who lives across the state border in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Jeffrey had heard of Unique Performance before and liked what the shop was doing with diesel trucks.

“It all started when I saw the kind of work Levi does,” Jeffrey says. “I knew that’s who I was going to have work on my truck.”

What started as a simple enough tint job on Jeffrey’s ’00 Dodge Ram 2500 turned into a full-blown project, owing to the shop’s excellent work. “Between the customer service at Unique Performance and how professional they are, the truck turned into a complete build,” he says. The end result is a rig that looks even cleaner than its 108,611 miles (and counting) suggest.

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Chaz Giles’ modified ’02 Dodge Ram 2500 sat for more than a year while he was trying to mold its direction. You see, Chaz discovered how simple building a street-driven, 700hp, common-rail Dodge could be, and suddenly the plan for making 600 hp with 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 – Word of Mouth .

The truck started out very nice, clean, and equipped with a 5.9L Cummins 24-valve engine and five-speed manual transmission, with plenty of luxury thanks to leather seats and chrome bumpers. But while it was in excellent original condition, Jeffrey wanted his truck to have just a bit more verve, both in styling and performance.

In went a set of compound turbochargers, with a Forced Inductions 80mm turbo feeding an Industrial Injection Phatshaft 62mm snail. An Industrial Injection Hot Rod VP44 injection pump takes fresh diesel from an AirDog II-4G lift pump capable of pushing 165 gph of clean, pure fuel. A Quadzilla Adrenaline programmer is used to load tunes into the ECM.

Routing all the engine’s 700-plus horsepower to the NV4500 five-speed manual is no easy task, but it’s one the South Bend dual-disc clutch is up for. And all that power is transmitted to 305/50R20 Nitto 420S tires, mounted on 20x10 Novokane wheels from BMF Wheels. Flight Fabrications ladder-style traction bars bolster the stock suspension and axles on hard launches, preventing axlewrap and undue wear.

All this mechanical labor took place over a period of several months—Jeffrey bought the truck in November 2016 and sent it to Unique Performance for the tint job a few months later. From then, it took several back-and-forth trips between Gillette and Hot Springs while Unique upgraded the truck bit by bit. Finally, with the mechanicals sorted out, it went under the knife for some cosmetic surgery.

The front end was upgraded with the popular Sport front bumper mod, replacing the stock grandpa-chic chrome and black plastic chin. The front bumper and tow mirrors were painted in the same Bright White as the hood and grille, which had already been dechromed. The traction bars also got color-matched, helping them pop and warning would-be street racers of the power and torque routed to that rear axle. Dark-finished head- and taillights give the truck a slick and aggressive mien, but on the whole, it’s a conservative build—no wild smokestacks, 28-inch wheels, outrageous body modifications, or elaborate body wraps. The only wacky colors are found under the hood, where electric purple carries the day.

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The interior pushes that sophisticated theme even further. The mostly stock cockpit features factory leather in excellent condition, wood-tone trim…and not much else. The only clues from behind the driver seat that this Ram has something extra to give are the A-pillar gauges and the tingling feeling one gets by pressing the accelerator.

What’s most impressive about the old Dodge is Jeffrey had an idea of what he wanted but wasn’t positive of how to get there. By trusting Unique Performance, he was able to build his old truck into something on another level.

“Levi knew exactly what I wanted and turned the truck into a one-of-a-kind masterpiece,” he says. We agree wholeheartedly.

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Levi calls his ’06 Dodge Ram “a well-oiled machine that is built to go all out.” Fleece Performance Engineering destroked the truck’s 6.7L Cummins engine to 6.4L, and the powerplant gets its fuel through 200-percent-over injectors that are fed by dual 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 – Word of Mouth .

Fun Fact: “The moment I got ahold of Levi Krech, I loaded the truck up and towed it over to his shop 3½ hours away, just for a simple tint job. The truck was then trailered back to the shop multiple times, and by then the project had turned into a complete build. Levi built something beyond what I was even expecting, and the attention to detail was just unbelievable.”

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